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Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador
Prudence M. Rice
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Description for Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador
Paperback. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 396.
Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology's sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region-often called Ibero-America-have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have ... Read more
Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology's sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region-often called Ibero-America-have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475781649
SKU
V9781475781649
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Reviews for Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador
`The book contains a valuable historical context for the region and town, and also has a valuable historiography on southern South American historical archaeology. ...here is a case study with local and national significance which links to international themes.' Post-Medieval Archaeology, 36 (2002)